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GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. At the core of Emacs lies an Emacs Lisp interpreter, the language in which the majority of Emacs' built-in functionality and extensions are implemented.

I like to create a bin directory in my home directory and make it the first item in my $PATH. I then create symbolic links to override the default MacOS installed version of certain apps. I have done ...

I picked up emacs for first time in decades last night on ubuntu. It was sweet: opened up in a GUI and I was able to set up CUA mode - but still able to access the CTL-C and CTL-X actions via META-X. ...

I am on Mavericks and I am running emacs 24.4.1, but I have the same problem also with 22.1.1. When I open mac on a terminal on the remote host, it does not recognise option key (alt) like the meta ...

This is a follow-up question to the one at "Is /usr/bin/etags severely out of date in Yosemite?"
The Emacs in question is from http://emacsformacosx.com/ (GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, ...

According to describe-key, there is no key binding in Emacs, even though I can't use dictionary shortcut in Emacs.
Is there way enable dictionary shortcut Command + control + D?
Of course I can use ...

I am using: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2014-10-20 on builder10-9.porkrind.org, on a MacBook Air 13 running OS X Yosemite (10.10.1). If I use the command ...

Like in iTerm, I'd like to be able to set a keyboard shortcut to switch to an application, which in this case would be Aquamacs. This would be really useful to know in general. Would an Applescript or ...

The console shows the following messages:
12/29/14 12:39:55.179 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.763512085[296]: (org.gnu.Emacs.118304[53982]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to ...

I want to try out and compare both the Cocoa- and X11-based versions of Emacs.
In general, I try to install all such packages through Homebrew, but in this case it looks like I Homebrew requires me ...

After upgrade to Yosemite I get this when trying to launch new Emacs app from command-line. I've spent yesterday trying to figure out what's the problem, so today I decided to ask here.
➜ ~ open -n ...

For Thunderbird there is the External Editor extension a very very classical piece of software that, when called via a shortcut, pops up your external editor (emacs in my case) and let's you edit your ...

I run Windows 7 almost exclusively at this point. I use a logitech windows bluetooth keyboard while at home. Running Freebsd through VMware Player, I installed emacs and have had to resort to using ...

This is not strictly a OSX question but someone in here probably has a solution.
I'm running emacs from the command line and I simply can't get emacs to correctly show Unicode characters. Everything ...

I come from a Linux/PC world as a heavy Emacs user and for the last year, I've "dealt" with the standard OS X key remapping. It's OK, but the things that bother me are:
Option + Key doesn't operate ...

I just bought an older Apple keyboard, with the idea that I could use it in conjunction with my internal Macbook Pro keyboard as a substitute for buying a keyboard that's capable of splitting into two ...

I am looking for a way in Bash to run something within Emacs. For example, if you run emacs, press esc+X then type "life," you get a little simulation of Conway's Game of Life. How could this be done ...

I am a heavy Emacs user and would love to have some of my Emacs keyboard bindings when editing text on other apps.
I understand I could program these macros with Keyboard Maestro manually, but I was ...

I have two MacBooks running Emacs (both 24.3). On one of them, I get same smooth, native scrolling like I do in Chrome, Finder, or whatever, but not on the other one.
To make it work a bit better, I ...

I type Programmer's Dvorak. I just started using XCode, and I decided to try to change the keybindings to be more Emacs-like. So, I set the keybinding to "Move Left" to ^B, pressed ^B, and...nothing ...

I'm looking for "unity-win7" like solution, where I can run cmd+num for activating browser, console, editor etc...
I found Activator and Services in osx, however, I can't use cmd+num because many app ...

Question:
Because I use emacs-live, I used homebrew to install emacs-24.3. Now everytime I want to launch emacs of version 24.3 in terminal, I have to type "emacs-24.3" --- if I just type "emacs", it ...

I'm writing instructions for a project and at some point, for a certain condition one needs to modify a simple plain ascii text file.
For windows I can tell them to fire up notepad. I thought on the ...